What were temporary outside classrooms called?

[TeddyIsaHe]

There’s a specific name, not Canin/portacabin. I’m having one of those brain-melt moments and now can’t relax until I remember it. I know this is not of the greatest importance!

We called them Demountables

Pretty sure we called them portacabins

@SoVeryQuiet it was the name of the company that made them

we called them 'roll-a-longs' - guess that's how you spell it anyway! no idea why!

Portacabins at the schooI I was at. Was teaching a class once when the floor suddenly detached from the walls. Not all the way round thankfully so we all left safely.

We called them huts in the midlands

We used to call them huts but DC's school call them demountables.

Demountable maybe.

Annex

We called them portacabins. I actually forgot all about them. We always had our PHSCE class in one and it was bloody freezing during winter.

Demountables.

T-huts at my old school in the 80s.

Demountable here as well (South-east England). We had music lessons in the "demountables" and that's where pupils went if they had 1-1 or small group interventions.

Mobiles

Demountables in South Wales

I've no idea why but in the 1970s the one at my school was the Hengis. May not have been spelt like that!

Yep, we called them demountables where I grew up.

Portacabins

Demountables

Terrapins in 1980s Wales

Huts at my school.

And they were there for years. We used to sit in coats and gloves with portable heaters in there during winter. Our form teacher would whizz through the registration so we could get inside to the warm building quickly.

Terrapins- 90's in the northwest

Mobiles - I remember dreading Maths in 'The Mobile' because it was either freezing or the heaters were blasting out and it was absolutely boiling, no in between at all!

We call them mobiles at my school